Enhancement of Instrumentation for Clustered Mesospheric Studies at the Mid-Latitude Bear Lake Observatory (42°N)

中纬度熊湖天文台（北纬42°）集群中层研究仪器的增强

• 批准号: 0116748
• 负责人: Jan Sojka
• 金额: $ 17.49万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0116748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancement; Instrumentation; Clustered; Mesospheric; Studies

This is a Major Research Instrumentation award to enhance the existing instrumentation at Utah State University's Bear Lake Observatory. Upgrades will be made to the Fabry-Perot Interferometer, the Imaging Doppler Interferometer, and the all-sky imager. The instruments will be used to study the coupling between atmospheric regions and long-term trends in the mesosphere, lower thermosphere, and ionosphere. The Bear Lake Observatory provide data from a unique vantage point in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, which are a likely source for many of the gravity waves that influence the dynamics of the middle atmosphere. The improved instrumentation will establish BLO as a key site for investigating long-term changes in the mid-latitude mesosphere and thermosphere. The new data will add to and strengthen the existing database that has been built up during the past decade, and the facility will provide key validation and correlative measurements for current and future space-based missions.

这是一项重大研究仪器奖，旨在增强犹他州立大学熊湖天文台的现有仪器。将对法布里-珀罗涉仪、成像多普勒干涉仪和全天成像仪进行升级。这些仪器将用于研究大气区与中间层、低热层和电离层的长期趋势之间的耦合。熊湖天文台提供的数据来自落基山脉中心的一个独特的有利位置，这可能是影响中层大气动力学的许多重力波的来源。改进后的仪器将使BLO成为研究中纬度中间层和热层长期变化的关键地点。新数据将增加和加强过去十年建立的现有数据库，该设施将为当前和未来的天基飞行任务提供关键的验证和相关测量。